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Mount Everest: The Death Zone, the Bodies, and the Queue at the Top of the World

340 dead. 200 bodies still on the mountain. A queue of 320 in the death zone. The history of Everest is what its climbers leave behind.

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Mount Everest: The Death Zone, the Bodies, and the Queue at the Top of the World

Nepal

Everest's death zone, Buddhist necropolises, and ancient kingdoms in the shadow of the Himalaya. Nepal's dark history is written into the world's highest mountains.

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